Comments

• Dev Null

  2007-08-28 04:23:06

  You guys are some of the most pathetic individuals I've come across since the MS/Novell agreement. You cry like little bitches about anything and everything. All you're accomplishing is to fragment the Linux community with this bias stand. Who is really behind these two idiots? Maybe Jihad Stallman is encouraging these impressionable brain-dead morons (is that an oxymoron?)
  
  Stop posting ridiculous articles and go see if you can get laid for a change. There's gotta be some chick with lower standards out there.

• Serenitude

  2007-08-28 04:36:57

  Dev Null,
  
  It's nice to read an intelligent, well-reasoned, ad-hominem-free response like yours. It helps people sympathize with your side of the issue, and shows the level of class that Roy and Shane are opposing.
  
  Thanks for the important and relevant facts. I'm sure the pro-Novell/Microsoft crowd is proud to have you speak for their cause.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2007-08-28 05:01:13

  "Jihad Stallman...", Dev Null
  
  "cry like little bitches...", Dev Null
  
  Where have I heard all of this before? Oh, wait, it was you...
  
  Microsoft executives have been using similar language. Are you one of them? ;-)

• MattD

  2007-08-28 15:18:57

  @Roy: This reminds me of the Barkto Incident from way back, ie old compuserve forums. There was a time when Compuserve ruled the roost as the premier online service before AOL.
  
  There's a good writeup here on the Barkto incident (Rick Segal, aka MS Shill), his exposure and the Departmet of Justice Involvement: http://lists.essential.org/1998/am-info/msg01529.html
  
  Microsoft Shilling and Astroturfing links and info that goes back many years: http://www.inlumineconsulting.com:8080/website/msft.shilling.html
  
  @Dev Null: tell everyone you agree that Linux violates 235 Microsoft patents (from the kernel to Open Office). Why Novell agreeing to this is such a great move for Linux, even without a review of the specifc patents in question.
  
  Tell us also why endangering all other Linux distributions as a result of this patent nonsense works in favor of a community that has spent nearly 2 decades bringing FREE and OPEN technology to the masses.
  
  Finally tell us why all other distros should sign a patent agreement with Microsoft stating that what used be a FREE system is no longer free and partly owned by Microsoft (without even a fight).
  
  I have yet to hear a defender of the Novell/Microsoft deal speak in favor of patents.

• Roy Schestowitz

  2007-08-28 16:27:21

  I have yet to hear a defender of the Novell/Microsoft deal speak in favor of patents.

  
  
  You could argue that Carmony came close to this with the "pirate" remark.